 In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty...  English Grammar - Page 172by Chestine Gowdy - 1901 - 209 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Boston (Mass.). Dept. of Parks - 1886 - 130 pages
...means than can be found in any public ground could be easily and cheaply adopted for the purpose. ' Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." PART SECOND. PAKT SECOND. THE PLAN OF FRANKLIN PARK. I. OF CERTAIN CONDITIONS OP THE SITE OF FRANKLIN... | |
 | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1886 - 374 pages
...which must criticized their utility the words the poet puts into the mouth of the retired Rhodora : — "Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." Of course, it is bad for any human beings to be exclusively dancers. " There is a time to dance," and... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 pages
...possibility and a high obligation ; nature was the mirror of deity ; and beauty— " Tell, them, dear, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." Emerson had now fairly entered upon his literary career. He was lecturing in Boston every winter, on... | |
 | Charles Goodrich Whiting - 1886 - 326 pages
...nestlings stol'n away? Sure only this could weigh thy note With such repairless agony ? EYES FOR SEEING. " If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." jjMERSON'S explanation of the rhodora's wasted bloom beside the wild-wood pool has become a proverb,... | |
 | 1887 - 168 pages
...come hither! Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. SHAKSPERE (As You Like, It). 71 IN May, when sea- winds pierced our solitudes, I found...is its own excuse for being : Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew; But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 632 pages
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora I if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on...is its own excuse for being ; Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose I I never thought to ask, I never knew; But in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 pages
...possibility and a high obligation ; nature was the mirror of deity ; and beauty — " Tell, them, dear, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." Emerson had now fairly entered upon his literary career. He was lecturing in Boston every winter, on... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...final cause of Nature. 1836. THE RHODORA: ON BEIXG ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER ? TN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes -•- I found the fresh Rhodora...is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance, suppose FROM... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 236 pages
...Emersonian style. Such a piece is the " Rhodora," worthy of the Greek Anthology: " In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in...seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why them \vert there, O rival of the rose 1 I never thought to ask, I never knew, Put in my simple ignorance,... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 1044 pages
...purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the red bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that...is its own excuse for being : Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew ; But in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
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